Word: arms
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...impossible to deliver his first lecture in such an overcrowded hall, Donald recalls, so he gave a few words of introduction, distributed the syllabuses, and ended class. As students began inching their way out of the classroom, one approached Donald, touched his arm, and exclaimed, "It's so good to hear someone talking Southern at Harvard...
Dole spoke last. He put forward his withered right arm, injured in 1945 by German mortar and machine-gun fire, and looked Saddam in the eye. "I have a daily reminder of the futility of war," Dole said. Recalls Simpson: "Saddam didn't respond to that. He was taken aback...
...heaviest concentrations of troops and armor, and calling in withering air strikes and tank and artillery fire on those that fought. Throughout the 100-hour campaign, the allied soldiers avoided hand-to-hand fighting wherever possible, preferring to stand off and blast away at their foes at more than arm's length...
Perhaps. But with or without Yeltsin, the Soviet ship of state has been foundering. As Gorbachev has turned away from reform and sought to squelch ethnic unrest with strong-arm tactics, Yeltsin's voice has been one of the few public ones consistently opposing him. Yeltsin has said he has no desire to replace Gorbachev, but the President clearly does not trust him. After Soviet paratroops shot their way into the television tower in Lithuania last month, killing 15 demonstrators, Yeltsin flew off to neighboring Estonia and publicly condemned the deployment of soldiers against civilians. He then signed a mutual...
...scenario, the long-awaited face-off between the U.S.'s high- tech M1A1 tank, with its turbine engine and depleted-uranium armor, and the battle-tested Soviet-built T-72, with its devastating 125-mm gun, would never come to pass. Iraq's heavy armor would be kept at arm's length, picked off from a distance by armor-piercing rounds, laser-guided Hellfires and heat- seeking Mavericks fired from the air. Scout planes and helicopters would identify targets, "squirt" them with lasers, and guide helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft in for the kill. "The point is to reduce...